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New comment by zazuke in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

zazuke — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:09:25 +0000

Only thing missing is a Screener, which once you have it, you cant live without. No need for burner adresses, as nobod lands in your inbox unapproves. I added it to my TUI, nvim and markdown first email client, neomd.

Multi-Modeling the Rocket Monster

zazuke — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:59:31 +0000

Article URL: https://mikkelmalmberg.com/2026/multi-modeling-the-rocket-monster

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297628

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zazuke in "MinIO is now community-forked as Silo"

zazuke — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:20:22 +0000

this is great to see! I used SeaweedFS in the meantime; it worked great too, and there are some other great alternatives [1], but I'm glad the original MinIO version continues. Gonna try this soon.

[1]: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/s3-storage-alternatives

New comment by zazuke in "Grok Bot"

zazuke — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:56:58 +0000

I think that happens already with email. I get a ton of same emails "want to join my podcast" or "see my product" based on some github projects I did or so, clearly all ai written. Important to have a good screener in your email.

New comment by zazuke in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

zazuke — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:55:32 +0000

same, also what I noticed

My Terminal Workflow for Note-Taking, Data Engineering and Writing (Linux/macOS)

zazuke — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:02:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/my-terminal-workflow-with-macos-and-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269176

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Notes Compound, Blogs Compile: When I Update a Note vs. Publish a Post

zazuke — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:21:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/sharing-as-second-brain-note-vs-a-blog-post/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208261

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The age of "no code" has passed

zazuke — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:26:24 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.exe.dev/the-end-of-no-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201175

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

DuckDB surpassed 40 000 stars on GitHub

zazuke — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:49:25 +0000

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/08/05/github-40k-stars

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188010

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Committing to Creativity

zazuke — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:21:59 +0000

Article URL: https://herman.bearblog.dev/creativity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184215

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by zazuke in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

zazuke — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:18:22 +0000

beautiful write up, thanks for sharing. I'm adding it to the "further reads". Love the "pre-tirement" term :)

New comment by zazuke in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

zazuke — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:59:19 +0000

author here, this is the differentiation I meant, and I didn't make it clear enough before - I added now a callout to clarify this more:

> To me, vacations are too short to turn off completely. Here, where I live, we have 5 weeks a year, if you are lucky, you can take three in a row in summer. But having two months or more, it’s completely different. Your mind will take time to turn off, to shut down from everyday life, and that’s when the benefit of new ideas comes, usually out of the blue, not forced just because your mind and body are resting from work and everything else.

Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller

zazuke — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:46:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/mini-retirements/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166749

Points: 34

# Comments: 53

I am quite tired of algorithms, so am I with Spotify; exporting playlists, etc.

zazuke — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:31:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/export-spotify-data-and-music-playlists-etc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157130

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zazuke in "Show HN: My public second brain – 660 notes, 15 years, open source"

zazuke — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:17:35 +0000

this is all free, open-source, and I'm just sharing, so no need to go there if you don't like it :0. you can check it out, or not, up to you. maybe helpful to someone else

New comment by zazuke in "Show HN: My public second brain – 660 notes, 15 years, open source"

zazuke — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:05:51 +0000

The takeaway should be to show how note-taking, publishing notes with a single #hashtag (no formatting needed or conversion), and doing so over a long time can compound to help write-inspired blog posts or even chapters of a later book. Not sure if that is enough, but I thought it might be interesting. I did the first commit to my SB on GitHub since 2022-08-30.

Oh, true, the explorer is actually not huge, it's more an example where I tried to improve the usage of public notes, with the help of AI (good catch! :D). I probably shouldn't have included it. I wrote a full article with more details on how I did it: https://www.ssp.sh/blog/obsidian-rag-duckdb-sql/

Show HN: My public second brain – 660 notes, 15 years, open source

zazuke — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:42:26 +0000

Author here. ~660 notes published from a private Obsidian vault of 8,360 (3M words). Started in OneNote around 2011, moved to Obsidian in 2021 [1], imported everything with a Python script [2].

Notes are compounding over time, and that is where my writing comes from. The Semantic Layer note started in 2022, became a four-part blog series, then a chapter of my book. Materialized Views, One Big Table, dbt and OLAP were separate notes written years apart. I only later noticed they were the same pattern, and that became another chapter.

Publishing: add #publish to a note, run `make deploy`. Quartz + Hugo, rsync to my own server [3]. Code [4]. Semantic search over the graph [5].

[1] https://www.ssp.sh/blog/how-to-take-notes-in-2021/ [2] https://www.ssp.sh/blog/how-to-take-notes-in-2021/#how-did-i... [3] https://www.ssp.sh/brain/public-second-brain-with-quartz/ [4] https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public [5] https://explore.ssp.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147627

Points: 4

# Comments: 6

Figma for Agents: How Airflow's Creator Coordinates AI Ft. Maxime Beauchemin

zazuke — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:16:07 +0000

Article URL: https://motherduck.com/blog/figma-for-agents-airflow-creator-maxime-beauchemin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122738

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zazuke in "Superlogical"

zazuke — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:08:00 +0000

I started to use tmux-claude-session-manager (https://github.com/craftzdog/tmux-claude-session-manager) in tmux, to have a pop-up to see all active sessions. I don't have many in parallel, so usually I don't even need, but if I'm lost or forgot one, it's really helpful.

New comment by zazuke in "Interview with Boris Cherny [video]"

zazuke — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:36:24 +0000

Yes this 100%. I'd say: don't overrate how you do it; it matters more what you do, especially with LLM models. It's just a tool.